What are people's thoughts on this? Fix it or leave it?..

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Hi all, had a cold air induction pipe put on a few weeks back. Paid good money too and definitely got no discount, haha, looks like this:



Anyway I have run into a problem with it that is concerning me more and more..
This thing is starting to bore a hole through my heat shield:



The top of the pipe is touching the bonnet when closed, here is a shot of a couple of beads of weld slag with the heat shield residue around it:



The bonnet is particularly hard to close, you can feel the bonnet touching the pipe even when the bonnet latch is only on it's first latch.. I think the problem is that the pipe sits to high, and angled upwards towards the middle of the engine bay. Have a look at the yellow line (pipe direction) as opposed to the green line which is the top of the engine bay (clearly the pipe rises towards the middle):



My other concern besides the hole being made in the heat shield is that if you look at the image above again, you will see that the intake pipe and throttle body do not align flush inside the blue silicone hose. The red arrows point to the misalignments.. So this can't be good for optimal airflow right?.. The bonnet is hard to shut, you really have to press down on it, and I'm guessing this is where the give happens to make it possible to close.. Over the last few weeks it has offset like that so that due to me opening and closing the bonnet.

Anyway I'm thinking of taking it back to get it fixed. Wanna know what people think, am I being paranoid? Is this acceptable? I'm thinking that I don't want the pipe to work it's way through my heat shield up top. I thought about just removing it but then it would be fouling on the bonnet, scratching the hell out of it. Also I don't like the fact that the intake is that hard up against the bonnet, surely this is no good when the engine flexes under acceleration on it's mounts.. Oh and of course I can't possibly be getting optimal air flow with the pipe and throttle body miss-aligned like that.

I am thinking about taking the car back to get this fixed, I don't think it would take much to fix, just needs another bend downwards (large green arrow) to me more in line with the engine (small green arrow):



I reckon that would solve it.

What do people think?..